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WOMAN AND HOME.
HOW TO HAVE PRETTY PICTURES
WITHOUT MUCH MONEY.

Women in Business-PhysicaI Training
of Girls-Children at Play-The Mature
Siren-Exquisite Dressing-A Daughters
Work-Odds and Ends
There was time when it was allowable for
a family who pretended to be possessed Of
taste to have chromos or colored Autographs
In the parlor That was about ten years ago.
Chromos have degenerated and the color
fanny has cropped out into the form of Easter
or birthday cards, while new processes of
copying have conspired to bring true repre-
sensations of beautiful originals in more re-
fined form within the reach Of ALL Photo
graphs, prototypes, heliotypes and etchings
are in better taste than the now popular grades
OF chromos, inasmuch as brought out in black
and white they express the spirit Of the orig
mails without being in any sense limitations
know young housekeeper who has hung
up in her little parlor half dozen feeble
Autographs in old time rustic frames Il
wouldn't" l said Neither would l." she
answered, ''if l had any better But they
correspond with the furniture" NO, they
don't" 1 demonstrated. "You have plain,
substantial furniture, good enough for any
body. These pictures make everything look
common-if you had different pictures the
same things would look artistic" "Well, l
don't consider this parlor. won't have a
parlor till / get nicer house" II would con-
slider this a parlor and not wait for a nicer
house" And my advice to anybody in similar
circumstances would be very much the same.
Out of the half dozen Autographs might be
a fairly good one, representing a cluster of
lilies. II [ would divest Of its clumsy
rustic fra and send the latter, with the
other pictur> to the garrett. Surround the
lilies with stout mat of tinted paper and
frame in fiat, dead goldJband, and ten to one
you have made it look like an exquisite water
color. At all events, the experiment is worth
trying.
A beautiful engraving of a good picture
can frequently be purchased for 81. Lovely
etchings and prototypes. some of the latter
copies of famous paintings, may be bought
for about the same sum. Photographs of the
popular pictures, 'The Jerseys" "Alice in
Wonderland "The Charity Girls" etc.,
range in price from fifty cents upwards
With their broad white margins all these
need in the way of frames are fiat, oiled oak
bands. Pictures like these are inexpensive
and, at the same time, in perfect taste, har-
monizing equally well with simply or pre-
tentiously furnished rooms
An old steel engraving if properly framed.
may prove rare treasure. A large wood
cut, taken from all Illustrated paper or maya
zine, may be made to look well by the judi
cious addition of mat and frame. A mat
may sometimes be touched up with a few
SPRAYS in water cOlArS The SIMPLEST draw
ing Of an amateur, neatly framed, is always
in better taste than gaudy chrome A little
oil painting upon shelf or bracket often
looks very well without frame. This young
housekeeper, and other young housekeepers,
ought now to know that it is possible to have
pretty pictures without spending much
money, or transgressing the laws of good
taste.-"M B. H." in Philadelphia Times,